I Am Thankful For...SITSahs

If you're not a blogger, specifically a female blogger, then you probably have no clue what I'm talking about. So what are these so-called "SITSahs" that I write of? SITSahs, otherwise known as SITS girls, are women who are part of a community of 40,000 female bloggers who support each other.

I joined this awesome group of ladies about six months ago, and I am so excited to report that today my blog is featured on their website! Who would have thought that out of 40,000 bloggers, I would be so lucky to have this awesome opportunity?!

This is a very exciting day for me and Mommy's Always Write because I have lots of great gals visiting my blog for the very first time. So to my SITSahs, I would like to say a great big welcome! Thank you all so much for your support over the last six months, especially today!

If this is your first time visiting my blog, I'd love for you to take a look around. I'm currently in the middle of my "I Am Thankful For" blog challenge, so if you scroll down my blog, you'll see that all my recent posts contain some trivial item that I am thankful for. My personal favorite is Day 2, where I was thankful for frozen peas.

If you want to get out of "Thankful Land," some of my other favorite posts include the one about my trip to the card store with my boys, the one where I share things that scare me as a mom, and the one about my Mother's Day picture. I promise most of my posts are a little more exciting than this one (at least I hope they are!).

I would also LOVE for you to "like" my facebook page. I share lots of fun and funny things on there related to being a mom, like this:

So thanks to everyone visiting my blog today, especially my SITSahs!

*In the spirit of Thanksgiving, "I Am Thankful For..." is a blog challenge I have decided to do during the month of November. Each day I will pick one thing that I am thankful for and blog about it. Obviously I am extremely thankful for the many things in my life I am blessed with, such as a wonderful family, my health and my family's health, great friends, a roof over my head, food on the table, and more. But this series is about all the other day-to-day things that I sometimes take for granted and that make life just a little bit better -- you know, the little things. To see a list of all the posts in this series, please click here.

I Am Thankful For...The Terrible Twos

Do you know what I love about 2-year-olds? They aren't 1-year-olds. Or infants.

I love my boys now, and I loved them when they were babies. But the first two years of their lives were not my favorite times. Here are some things I don't miss about when my boys were under the age of two:

• Teething
• The "let me see how many times mom will pick up this toy when I throw it on the ground" game
• A crying hungry baby
• A crying tired baby
• A crying teething baby
• A crying wet baby
• A crying mommy due to 10 hours of listening to a crying baby
• Sweet potato spit-up 
• Teething
• Drool
• Feeling the need to have my entire house bubble-wrapped to prevent injuries to my wobbly child
• The need to relocate every object in the house that is less than two inches in size to a high spot
• The need to relocate every stool in the house so that the wobbly child will not attempt to reach the small objects that were moved up high
• Did I mention teething?

So three cheers for the terrible twos! I'll take them any day over teething.

*In the spirit of Thanksgiving, "I Am Thankful For..." is a blog challenge I have decided to do during the month of November. Each day I will pick one thing that I am thankful for and blog about it. Obviously I am extremely thankful for the many things in my life I am blessed with, such as a wonderful family, my health and my family's health, great friends, a roof over my head, food on the table, and more. But this series is about all the other day-to-day things that I sometimes take for granted and that make life just a little bit better -- you know, the little things. To see a list of all the posts in this series, please click here.

I Am Thankful For...The Number 7

When I was younger, I used to love the day that we would set our clocks back an hour. It meant an extra hour of sleep! And what person wouldn't gladly welcome an extra hour of sleep? I'll tell you two people... A 2-year-old and a 4-year-old. 

Now that I'm a parent of young children, I dread Daylight Savings Time. I don't care if it's starting or ending. I don't like any of it. In fact, I dislike it so much that it prompted one of my very first blog posts ever.

Last night (or really early this morning if you want to be technical about it), we were supposed to make our clocks "fall back" an hour. But the only falling back I wanted to be doing this morning was falling back to sleep. Unfortunately kids don't observe Daylight Savings Time. To them, 7:00 is the new 6:00.

But on the plus side, Alec is four now. And do you know what is great about 4-year-olds? They know their numbers.

We have taught Alec that when he wakes up in the morning, he needs to wait until he does not see the number 6 on the clock. So pretty much every morning (including this morning), when the clock turns to 7:00, Alec appears at the side of my bed. But he always waits until he sees that 7. Actually, it's kind of like having my own personal alarm clock.

So in just another year or so, I should be able to teach Chase the same thing. And maybe then I will once again be able to claim my extra hour of sleep.

So let's hear it for the number 7... For providing that extra hour of sleep to some of the people who need it the most!

*In the spirit of Thanksgiving, "I Am Thankful For..." is a blog challenge I have decided to do during the month of November. Each day I will pick one thing that I am thankful for and blog about it. Obviously I am extremely thankful for the many things in my life I am blessed with, such as a wonderful family, my health and my family's health, great friends, a roof over my head, food on the table, and more. But this series is about all the other day-to-day things that I sometimes take for granted and that make life just a little bit better -- you know, the little things. To see a list of all the posts in this series, please click here.

I Am Thankful For...Grandparents

Today's post is going to be super short. Why? Because the boys are off having fun at Pappy and Grammy's house.

And when the boys are at a grandparent's house, my house is very quiet.

And I don't have to listen to choruses of "he hit me first!" every ten minutes.

And I don't have to repeat the word "No" to the same question from one boy 78 times in one minute, while at the same time trying to answer the "Why" question from the other boy 42 times in that same minute.

And I can finish a cup of coffee while it's still hot.

And I can go out for that cup of coffee if I want to.

And.... wait, why am I still writing?

So today I am thankful for grandparents, who provide a temporary relief from the noise, the fighting, the whining and the cold coffee. Hooray for grandparents!


*In the spirit of Thanksgiving, "I Am Thankful For..." is a blog challenge I have decided to do during the month of November. Each day I will pick one thing that I am thankful for and blog about it. Obviously I am extremely thankful for the many things in my life I am blessed with, such as a wonderful family, my health and my family's health, great friends, a roof over my head, food on the table, and more. But this series is about all the other day-to-day things that I sometimes take for granted and that make life just a little bit better -- you know, the little things. To see a list of all the posts in this series, please click here.

I Am Thankful For...Frozen Peas

Similar to the grapes from yesterday, peas are one of the vegetables that my boys will gobble up. They are easy to make and go with just about everything...in pasta, with steak, in salads.

But frozen peas are good for another reason. And I am guessing you can figure out what it is.

In addition to being thankful for frozen peas, I am also thankful for a husband who was willing (at least as willing as guys get when it comes to this subject) to use frozen peas when we decided that we didn't want to be outnumbered by children in our house.

Don't get me wrong. We love our kids, and we have a great time with them. But two children is plenty for us. Some days I barely have the energy to keep up with the two of them, so I can't even imagine adding more to the mix.

And since having kids usually means being pregnant, NOT having more kids means that I will never have to be pregnant again, which is just as important.

I was definitely not one of those "glowing" pregnant women. I was more the one cursing all the non-pregnant women of the world, moaning and groaning to anyone who would listen (mostly my husband). Hmmmm... Now that I think about it, maybe that's why Chad was so eager to agree to the frozen peas.

Don't let that smile fool you... All I could think about was "Get this baby OUT of me!"

So thanks to frozen peas, here are five things I will hopefully never have to go through again.

• Trying to pee into a cup when I can barely stand up anymore, let alone reach a cup around my ginormous belly to hopefully catch enough pee to fill the cup to the line, frequently resulting in pee going everywhere but the cup
• The evil eyes associated with even a quick glance at a glass of wine, piece of deli meat, or cup of coffee
• Glucose tests
• The pregnant woman walk, also known as the hippo waddle, duck tango, constipated cow, etc.
• The complete inability to sneeze without peeing (where's that cup when you need it?)

So let's hear it for frozen peas! Can I get a snip snip?

*In the spirit of Thanksgiving, "I Am Thankful For..." is a blog challenge I have decided to do during the month of November. Each day I will pick one thing that I am thankful for and blog about it. Obviously I am extremely thankful for the many things in my life I am blessed with, such as a wonderful family, my health and my family's health, great friends, a roof over my head, food on the table, and more. But this series is about all the other day-to-day things that I sometimes take for granted and that make life just a little bit better -- you know, the little things. To see a list of all the posts in this series, please click here.

I Am Thankful For...Grapes

Grapes are great. Both of my boys gobble them up like they haven't eaten in weeks. In fact, grapes were Chase's first favorite food when he started eating solid foods. They were just about the only healthy food we could get him to eat for a very long time.

There are red grapes, green grapes, purple grapes. There are grapes with seeds and grapes without seeds. Then there are raisins, which are really just dried grapes.

But do you know what the best kind of grape is? The best kind of grape is the kind that has been fermented and comes in a bottle with a cork.

Yes, without grapes we would not have wine. And without wine, I would probably be in a mental institute right now.

So let's hear it for grapes. Red ones, green ones, purple ones, dried ones, and most importantly, bottled ones. Cheers!

Now this is my kind of wine glass.

*In the spirit of Thanksgiving, "I Am Thankful For..." is a blog challenge I have decided to do during the month of November. Each day I will pick one thing that I am thankful for and blog about it. Obviously I am extremely thankful for the many things in my life I am blessed with, such as a wonderful family, my health and my family's health, great friends, a roof over my head, food on the table, and more. But this series is about all the other day-to-day things that I sometimes take for granted and that make life just a little bit better -- you know, the little things. To see a list of all the posts in this series, please click here.

I Am Thankful For...

In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I have decided to do a blog challenge during the month of November. Each day in November I'll pick one thing that I am thankful for and blog about it.

Obviously I am extremely thankful for the many things I am blessed with, such as a wonderful family, my health and my family's health, great friends, a roof over my head, food on the table, and more. And I certainly don't ever want it to appear as though I am taking the serious things in life for granted. (If you ever start to doubt how much I appreciate these things, just check out my post about the birth of my second son. This will assure you that I never, ever take these things for granted.)

But this series is not about the serious things in life. It is about all the other day-to-day things that I sometimes do take for granted and that make life just a little bit better -- you know, the little things.

Each day you will find a new post on my blog, and I will also keep a running list of the days here on this post. So please check back often! I'd also love to hear what little things you're thankful for in your life!

Day 1: Grapes
Day 2: Frozen Peas
Day 3: Grandparents 
Day 4: The Number 7
Day 5: The Terrible Twos 
Day 6: SITSahs
Day 7: Diane Sawyer
Day 8: Other People's Kids
Day 9: Sippy Cups  
Day 10: My Oldest Child 
Day 11: Bleach
Day 12: 65 Degrees  
Day 13: Babies, Bellies, Wind and Fruit Snacks 
Day 14: People who don't realize that I missed a day. Oops!

Day 15: Aunt Suzie
Days 16-21: My Six Best 'Friends'
Day 22: The Real Stuff
Day 23: Garden Hoses  
Day 24: Musical Christmas Toys
Day 25: Friendsgivingmas
Days 26 & 27: Thumbs and Hairdressers
Day 28: Frosty The Elf
Day 29: The Week After Thanksgiving
Day 30: The End